Death, life and laughter: essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies

Introduction: Transgressing Boundaries / Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon and Mathew Guest -- Part I: Cultures of Meaning and Religious Identity -- 1. The Book of Mormon: The American Gospel? / Seth Kunin -- 2. Death, Sometimes, Has its Price? How Douglas Davies and Sergio Leone Cope with Capitalism and Cha...

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Contributors: Guest, Mathew 1975- (Editor) ; Middlemiss Lé Mon, Martha 1978- (Editor) ; Davies, Douglas J. 1947- (Honoree)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York Ashgate [2017]
In:Year: 2017
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religious identity / Cultural identity / Interfaith dialogue
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Spirituality
B Religion and sociology
B Davies, Douglas J. 1947-
B Religious Life
B Religion
B Festschrift
B Davies, Douglas James
B Self-perception Religious aspects
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Summary:Introduction: Transgressing Boundaries / Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon and Mathew Guest -- Part I: Cultures of Meaning and Religious Identity -- 1. The Book of Mormon: The American Gospel? / Seth Kunin -- 2. Death, Sometimes, Has its Price? How Douglas Davies and Sergio Leone Cope with Capitalism and Change / James Crossley -- 3. Mormonism and the Fourth-Century Search for a Christian Doctrine of God -- Grant Underwood -- 4. Words and Deeds against Exclusion: Deprivation, Activism and Religiosity in Inner-city Birmingham / Christian Karner and David Parker -- Part II: Ritual, Symbolism and Identity -- 5. Religion and Ritual Markers between the Public and the Private: Funerary Rites in Sweden / Anders Bäckström -- 6. Facing existential meaning challenges through a post-secular clinical model: Swedish case illustrations following abortion -- Valerie DeMarinis -- 7. The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the Introduction and Reception of a Sacred Tree / Charles Watkins -- Part III: Disciplinary Identity and the Boundaries of Understanding -- 8. Hope and creativity: the shifting nexus between religion and development / James Beckford -- 9. Theology, Social Science, and the ¿Power¿ of Religion and of the Spirit / David Martin -- 10. Called to Speak: Language, Meaning and the Status of Research Data / Matthew Wood -- 11. Where does Islamic Studies Fit? / Hugh Goddard -- 12. From Jevons to Collini (via Douglas Davies): Reflections on Higher Education and Religious Identity / Mathew Guest -- 13. A Break from Prose: Defying the Boundaries of Genre / Eleanor Nesbitt -- 14. An Inquisitive Presence: Thinking with Douglas Davies on the Study of Religion / Michael Thate
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:147242770X